Elmer Thomas
Principal, Developer Educator
Moreno Valley, California, United States
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Top SchoolElmer Thomas is a Principal Developer Educator at Twilio with nine years of focused experience helping developers adopt and scale communication APIs through clear documentation, tutorials, and production-ready SDKs. He blends hands-on software engineering—having built and maintained Twilio/SendGrid libraries and tooling—with developer education, content creation, and public speaking to make complex systems approachable. His background in computer and electrical engineering informs practical guidance on architecture, automation, and operations, while his open-source and community leadership roles show a commitment to accessible learning. Elmer is curious about applying AI, ML, and VR to create more adaptive, immersive developer education, and he channels his outdoors and family life into empathetic, inclusive teaching practices.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Electrical Engineering, Masters Electrical Engineering at University of California, Riverside
Stackoverflow
2,178reputation
356kreached
20answers
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Github Skills (78)
ruby10
php-api10
javascript10
sendgrid10
dotnet10
api10
golang10
js-api10
smpp10
java10
static-site10
transactional-emails10
nodejs10
stdout10
csharp10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/smtpapi-java
Apr 2017 - Jun 2024
SendGrid's smtpapi library in Java
Contributions:9 releases, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
smppsendgrid-ssendgridjava
SendGridDX/sendgrid-nodejs
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
node-jsjavascripthelper-librarysendgridnodejs
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